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Re: ACE'92 show: Report

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From: Ted Brown
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 19:49
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>In any case, to answer your question, the Gemulator board that contains
>the TOS Roms actually has two empty sockets for the Mac ROMs.

Well that relieves *some* of my questions.  How does it read Mac Disks? It
would be enough if it could read 1.44 disks (that is as soon as Dave adds
the capability), but I don't see how you can make a typical IBM read 
Macintosh disks without some extra hardware device (of course I am not a 
hardware-techy type so I could be wrong).

It just seems to me that for a $300 program on top of a $2500 machine which
you need to buy some TOS chips to add, just to emulate a $350 computer is 
just a little out of whack.  Some might want it to run Spectre but that still
gets out of line: $300 + $500 (Spectre w/Roms) + TOS comes to $800 plus to
emulate a mac (but probably faster than a plus speeds).  I guess some might
pay any price to be able to run mac apps on an IBM, but we are close range of
just go out an buy a real mac so you get Sys7, all the proper ports and such,
the possiblility of color, et all.  Well, I guess someone will buy it just
to be able to do that.

But hey, I guess it's a good add for an ST.  It takes a 50Mhz 486 just to be
an ST (without MIDI).  Hey, how is Gemulator on ST sound anyway?

Ted Brown (still trying to get "it")
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